Professional Interests

My position as an English education faculty member allows me to teach in two departments. My primary responsibility as English faculty has me teaching American Literature courses and courses taken by English education students so I may monitor and foster their progress as future educators. My primary responsibility as Education faculty takes me into North Shore high schools to supervise student teachers.

In general, my research work focuses on integration, interrelation, and application. Broadly speaking, my scholarship focuses on representations of race, gender, and sexuality. Willa Cather, my primary research topic, has informed my dissertation, my book, and many conference presentations. Since 2007, my experiences battling breast cancer inform my current project, “Hysterectomy, Mastectomy, and the Lesbian Body,” which starts with the personal and extends into the academic by examining the theoretical and the medical.

Responsibilities

Chair, English Department

Graduate Program Coordinator, Master of Art in Teachng English

Selected Publications

Women-Writing-Women: Three American Responses to the Woman Question. Germany: VDM, 2008.